Ben-Abernathy

Hey everyone! It's obviously been ages since I wrote anything significant on here--apologies! It's been a nutty year...and if it's any consolation I have no time to write for thebrewsite.com any more, either (and beer is real passion of mine)...but, I have been doing writing and I wanted to share...this is the first part to my short, dark NEW GIRL fan fiction (yes, the TV show). Enjoy!    Prologue      Nick Miller was a man known more for his anxieties and superstitions than his intelligence and forethought. It was 2:23 am and he lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. Jess, the love of his life, was fast asleep next to him, exhausted from a l

Hey everyone! Not sure how many folks will be in Seattle this weekend for the Emerald City Comic Con but Liam and I will be walking the floor and talking up the power that is Motion Books! If you see two unreasonably handsome gents wearing the Madefire logo--say hello! I might have an extra t-shirt on hand to give you :) Have a great weekend!

It's been a while since I wrote up another amusing memoir from my 15+ comic book career so I felt it was time to reveal a rarely-seen side of my personality—the nerd out! (And by rare, I mean almost NEVER WITNESSED!) Growing up, I was never the biggest comic book fan as I primarily read my older brother's comics while occasionally buying my own (and when I did, they were X-books—I was a Marvel Kid!). It was the late 80s and a great era to be buying Marvel books—Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri at top of their game, Claremont was writing magic on the X-Universe and the incredible Arthur Adams was producing outstanding work on shorter stories and m